Hassall, Tim2015-12-130378-2166http://hdl.handle.net/1885/77401The notion of a second language native-speaker target for learners of pragmatics has been criticised on several counts. However, one problem with this target seems to have escaped notice: when a learner behaves in a native-like way the native speaker might actually misconstrue this behaviour, because he or she views it through a filter of expectations about how the learner will behave. This claim is illustrated with snippets of ethnographic data on one pragmatic problem: avoiding unwelcome questions in Indonesian.Keywords: Avoiding questions; Indonesian; Interlanguage pragmatics; Pragmatic expectations; Target norm200410.1016/j.pragma.2003.09.0012015-12-11